You don't mince words.""Just garlic.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

Peer into your loving dog's eyes and you will have seen true trust and loyalty .

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.